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100 RELIGION OF THE NOETHMEN.
pile ; but Odin's son, Yali, althongli but one nigbt
old, avenged Baldur's death by slaying HoduT, his
murderef.
>J[i0ki^ pursued by the -^sir, now fled up to a
mofcntliin from which he coul(f see to all comers of
the world, and when he saw the .lEsir drawing near
in their search after him, he changed himself into
the likeness of a salmon, and hid himself under a
waterfall. But Odin saw him from "FTliSskj^lf, and
the .^ir caught him. They then bound him with
the intestines of his own son Nari, upon three sharp
rocks in a dark cave, and Ska5i fastened a venomous
serpent over his head, whose poison should drip
down into his face. Sigyn, his faithful wife, stands
beside him and holds a vessel under the venom-
drops; but when it is fuU and she goes away to
empty it, the venom drips down into Loki's face,
and then he writhes himself so that the whole earth
shakes. Thence come the earthquakes. Thus shall
Loki lie bound until the end of the world.